Ethiopia has a unique and enduring culture with a fantastic range of relatively unexplored landscapes. This presentation will introduce your students to the wonderful country of Ethiopia, looking at where it is, what it looks like, who lives there and what other things you can find there.

Students think about what they like and dislike about going to school and swap this information with students at their link school. Use the responses to discuss similarities and differences.

Early Years: You might like to have similar discussions with your students as outlined in the lesson plan for KS1/2 students but just simplify the shared learning activity by asking students to draw a picture of their favourite activity.

The Recipe Swap provides investigative activities based on food preparation and the diversity of food and cooking from another culture. Students will create a display featuring a recipe for a typical English dish illustrating the cooking process with drawings and diagrams. After recipes have been exchanged with your link school the students can then experiment with cooking Ethiopian food and discussing any unsual ingrediants or cooking methods.

This resource allows students to investigate their local environment and learn about the plants and animals that live there. After considering their response to the environment, how it makes them feel and why it is important to look after it, they can then create a display about their local environment and fill in an ‘exchange sheet’ in order to share ideas with students at their link school.

This resource encourages students to share information about their personal aspirations and their hopes for the world. Looking at the Olympic values (displayed in the worksheet), they can decide which one would be most important in order to achieve their personal goals. Work can then be swapped with your link school and used for the basis of a discussion exploring similarities and differences and the significance of Olympic values in different cultures.

This resource introduces a distant locality through housing, cooking and going to school. It is based on Gondar, a busy town in Ethiopia. It focuses on knowledge and understanding of Ethiopian life, similarities and differences between Gondar and the children’s locality and the effects of change in a less developed country. It is picture and discussion-based and can be differentiated by outcome for different age groups.

Exploring healthy eating and diversity, students investigate what constitutes a healthy diet and then investigate their own diet by keeping a food diary. Using this information, a display for your link school can be created, then swapped and discussed.